Summer at the river Main “Sports Ele­ment” — Urban Sports Park

Inspired by the banks of the Seine in Paris, the Aarhus Canal in Den­mark or life on the rivers in Lyon, the north­ern bank of the Main in Frank­furt (the “Mainkai”) is to be (re)cre­ated as a large public space. In the pro­cess, the oth­er­wise busy Mainkai was opened to cit­izens in the summer of 2022 and 2023 and was used and activ­ated with street art, daily sports and exer­cise offers, sports events, chil­dren's activ­it­ies as well as art and dance events.

In cooper­a­tion with a wide range of stake­hold­ers in Frank­furt's urban soci­ety, it was pos­sible to use simple means to test which things and uses would prove suc­cess­ful in the street space and should be fur­ther developed or which would not work and could be dis­carded. With the spa­tial exper­i­ments, valu­able insights were gained for an attract­ive and activ­at­ing redesign in order to trans­form the Mainkai into an urban space for all cit­izens in the long term.

The sports ele­ment of “Sommer am Main” was imple­men­ted under the lead­er­ship of the Sportkreis Frank­furt (the umbrella organ­isa­tion of all sports asso­ci­ations in Frank­furt) in close coordin­a­tion with the Sports Depart­ment and Sports Office of the City of Frank­furt am Main. In addi­tion, a vari­ety of cooper­a­tion part­ners from the Frank­furt city soci­ety were activ­ated, with whom the spe­cific actions on the north­ern bank of the Main river were planned and imple­men­ted. PRO­PRO­JEKT sup­por­ted the Frank­furt sports dis­trict in coordin­at­ing all the tasks that were neces­sary to pre­pare, plan and imple­ment the activ­a­tion and use of the Mainkai.

Fur­ther inform­a­tion can be found here.